Research Project

Research Project (RP) is a quarterly works-in-progress series that offers a community forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and artist-to-peer support. RP brings together movement-based artists in the midst of their creative development to show work, share process, give & receive response, and chew the fat. Performances usually run about an hour with facilitated conversation of about an hour to follow.

Nora Sharp has facilitated Research Project since 2014, in collaboration with Aurora Tabar since 2017. OuterSpace Studios in Wicker Park has been RP’s home since the event was founded by Greer Dworman in 2013, initially supported by The Space Movement Project and now with the continued generous support of The Watering Can Dance/Jessica Marasa and the other wonderful people who run OuterSpace.

Open Call for Submissions

Proposals to show work at RP are accepted on an ongoing basis, with the following details and deadlines for the coming year:

RP 20, April 7, 2019: proposals accepted until March 15

RP 21, June 2, 2019: proposals accepted until May 15

RP 22, August 4, 2019: proposals accepted until July 15

If you’re interested in showing work, please know and send along the following:

– RP is shaped to serve movement-based artists, though we encourage a broad view of this language.

– Please send us a brief description of the work you wish to share, where you are in your process, and what you hope to gain from this in-progress opportunity. What are you looking for from your audience?

– If possible, please send a link to a brief work sample reflecting your current research.

– Please let us know the length of time that would best serve your needs in showing. Most performances usually run 10 minutes or under (excerpts of longer works welcome), but we are sometimes able to arrange for longer showings.

Artists will present their work at OuterSpace Studios, 1474 N. Milwaukee, 3rd Floor, Chicago. We regret that there is not an elevator available at this space.